"Everybody has time,
stop watching fucking lost"
Gary Vaynerchuk
@garyvee
“Ask yourself: What do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life? Do that! I promise, you can monetize that shit.”
“There is no reason in 2008 to do shit you hate. Promise me you won’t. […] I became 1% not happy selling wine and that’s when I changed my life.”
"For 17 months I did Wine Library TV 5 days a week, I walked away from being CEO of my company, for 7 years it grew 24% every month against the previous years month - I walked away and I started Wine Library TV and I became part of the community."
"Listen to your users – absolutely. But giving a shit about your users is way better."
"Caring about your user base – that’s what you need to do. You need to care about everything – and it starts with yourself."
"It’s coming, stop crying and just keep hustling. Hustling is the most important word. Ever."
"And that’s what you need to do – you need to work so hard. Guys, we’re building businesses here this isn’t about parties."
"You have to have a business model – getting a crap load of users and then flipping it is not a business model – make some cash along the way."
"If you’re pumping out good shit, people will follow but if you for a second – a half a second – don’t believe in what you’re doing whether it's your personal brand or the product you represent you need to get out now. We only get to play this game one time – one life."
"My fundamental hope is that people realise this is business – and number two – understand the game is changing.
Everybody is going to be consuming content everywhere – and the people that controlled it – newspapers and television and radio are no longer in control."
"You need to build brand equity – in yourself.[…] If you have brand equity you will be fine.
There is never a bad time when you believe, when you work hard and when you know what you’re doing but you have to do what you love. […] If you love it, you will win."
"The only way to succeed now is to be completely transparent, completely exposed."
"Your user base and the people that care about you - you need to connect to them any way you can, every way you can and as often as you can. That interaction is essential."
"We are going through a gold rush of branding. In the old days you needed a lot of mainstream media attention – but now – if you get talked about enough in all these social webs – blogs – you can get there. You can build your brand."
"I don’t want to hear about this 9-5 bullshit "I don’t have time."
If you want this – work 9 to 5, spend a couple of hours with your family. 7 – 2 in the morning is plenty of time to do damage."
"Please stop doing this by the way - “Well, we’re the Facebook plus Digg minus Flickr and De.lis.us on the flip side” – that’s horse shit. Do what you’re about. Please."
"If you’re shy – become the greatest shy guy on earth."
"You need to work your friggin face off. Nobody wants to talk about the hard part - that building community takes forever."
"Do you give a crap about your users? They know if you care and if you don’t."
"Online marketing is way more effective then offline marketing."
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Gary Vaynerchuk is the leader in using the social media landscape to create and build personal brands that can be leveraged for business creation and growth.
The concepts he teaches are simple and give hope to everyone who ever dreamed of making a living doing something they love.
Comments
Mike Boyd (@mikeboyd) Says on June 23, 09
That is my all time favourite @garyvee quote!
Stop watching fucking lost!
Hustle!
#Crushit!
Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) Says on September 7, 09
WOW what a site!
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